Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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